Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Senate judiciary chair, and the committee's top Democrat seek answers from Trump on firings of ...

President Trump fired 17 inspectors general across federal agencies. Here's what an inspector general does and who they work ...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he’s confident President Trump will hire “serious” inspectors general to replace the roughly 17 ...

Many inspector general offices will be headed by acting leaders in the interim, which could weaken the effectiveness of their ...

Trump's firings of the Senate-confirmed inspectors general included officials at Defense, State, Transportation, Labor, ...

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One of 17 government watchdogs ousted by President Trump said that the move was a “a potentially existential threat” to a ...

Donald Trump put a temporary pause on federal grants and halted foreign aid, among a slew of other efforts, to cut down on ...

Congress created the first inspector general position in 1976 in an era of post-Watergate reform. Trump's recent move to fire ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called the firings a “chilling purge,” while GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally ...

President Donald Trump’s firing of as many as 17 federal inspectors general from is another attempt to remove the type of ...

The Trump administration wants the firings challenged to get the Supreme Court to hold that the president can fire anyone ...